StoryPros Awards Contest Winners Circle

Grand Prize Winner
ENGINERDS by Leila Huff Ludy & Todd Ludy (CONTACT)
A college freshman signs up for Talent Night to impress the girl of his dreams -- but gets more than he bargained for when he enlists the help of his misfit engineering pals.

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1st Place - Action/Adventure/Thriller
A NUCLEAR OPTION by Philip Sedgwick (CONTACT)
Back door political dealings and a comedy of errors follow a geologist who must take on a high-ranking politician to prevent him from tampering with Mother Nature.

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1st Place - Comedy
THOROUGHLY ENGAGED by Paul De Rose (CONTACT)
An engaged woman on the verge of her big break finds a diamond ring on her doorstep - a ring lost in the mail for seven years, and sent to her by her first love.

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1st Place - Drama
7 by Chris Kyle & Jason Wilborn (CONTACT)
A pro athlete struggles to maintain leadership in the locker room and on the field when a controversial sex tape goes global.

1st Place - Family/Teen/Animation
THE CAPTAIN by Selby Coffin (CONTACT)
It's not easy being fourteen for the captain of a hockey team that just might lose every game, as he comes up with new and unexpected ways to lead, on and off the ice.

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1st Place - Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror
THE BRIEF POSE QUARTERLY by Wesley McCraw (CONTACT)
Pushed over the edge by tragedy, an outsider escapes his grief by slipping into a false reality based on a seductive marketing campaign.

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2nd Place - Action/Adventure/Thriller
LIND by Richard Flynn (CONTACT)
After losing his wife and young daughter in a tragic accident, Chris Leeds helps a mysterious, oddly beautiful woman undergo a strange metamorphosis that will change not only her destiny � but his own.

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2nd Place - Comedy
ALIENATED by Darryl Anka (CONTACT)
Two odd-couple buddies, on their way to Vegas, pick up a pair of sexy sisters -- who just happen to be shapeshifting aliens studying the human race. When one of the girls gives the guys mind-control powers, then things really start getting weird.

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2nd Place - Drama
ALWAYS A PLEASURE by John Dieffenbach (CONTACT)
Bobby Fisk never turned down a drink or a girl. A fallen superstar comedian, he has his latest "comeback tour" cut short when forced to care for an estranged daughter after a tragic accident in a small Southern town.

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2nd Place - Family/Teen/Animation
DREAMWORLD by Brent Hartinger (CONTACT)
Julie, a 13-year-old-girl plagued by nightmares, wakes up in Slumberia, the strange wonderland inside her own brain where they "film" her dreams. But can she stop her nightmares without ending up stuck in Slumberia forever?

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2nd Place - Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror
UNDERGROUND by Richard Hobley (CONTACT)
London. 2035. When a technological malfunction turns the human race feral, a man and his estranged daughter must join forces with several other survivors to search for a cure.

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3rd Place - Action/Adventure/Thriller
BULLET TIME by Quentin Hidalgo & Douglas Johnson (CONTACT)
A disillusioned corporate assassin stumbles upon a time-bending technology and finds himself marked for death for a murder he committed...two days from now!

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3rd Place - Comedy
I, THONGULUS by William Bienes & Charles Herbert (CONTACT)
Rummy, the black sheep of the family Jules, races against time to save the world and snatch from an ancient secret sect the mystical force responsible for every major disaster since Vesuvius buried Pompeii - the sarcophagus of Thongulus, inventor of the man thong.

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3rd Place - Drama
MARLOWE by Louise Ransil (CONTACT)
TRUE STORY: African American detective, Sam Marlowe juggles gangsters, movie stars and corrupt politicians in 1930's Los Angeles, while introducing naive author, Raymond Chandler to the realities of P.I. work.

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3rd Place - Family/Teen/Animation
ALIEN HIGH SCHOOL by Donald Driscoll (CONTACT)
As the only kids to escape the assault when mind-controlling space aliens invade their high school, the class nerd teams up with the cheerleading squad to fight the intergalactic threat, overcome a mountain of social awkwardness, and save the day.

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3rd Place - Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror
BETRAYED by Phil Ferriere (CONTACT)
Suspecting the boy next door is being repeatedly beaten by his father, an 18-year-old girl starts an investigation of her own that leads to a grueling night of terror...